THE RULES
1. Play as a full team of five.
2. Win each game playing as champs from the same region.
3. Move to the next region only after beating the previous one.
After 11 years, League of Legends is anything but stale. Strategies shift and evolve with new characters, new features, and a community full of mad-hat theory-crafters. But after 11 years, most players have found a groove, sticking to a handful of comfort zone champions in a way that makes it harder to keep things feeling fresh.
Recently, however, the game’s developers have cooked up a means to try to break players out of their ruts. Challenges are League of Legends’ achievements, rewarding players for anything from scoring kills to buying skins. Hidden within them are the ‘Globetrotter’ challenges, and our aim is to complete all 13 of them.
The rules are mostly predetermined by the challenges themselves. First, we have to play as a group of five. That shouldn’t be difficult, but as my group of gaming buddies gets older, real life is starting to make it a little harder to pull the whole gang together.
Second, we have to play’ world-building is pretty impressive, with its 160-odd characters spread across 13 of those regions. Some areas are well-populated with a wide variety of champions, making team creation pretty easy. Others are emptier, or so thematically-focused that strategy goes out the window.
